Yogi Adityanath

If the Opposition gets to repeat Gorakphpur and Phulpur in Kairana, it will give a further push to its unity and efforts to stitch up a formidable alliance against the BJP in the 2019 general elections.

There have been more than 1100 encounters in Uttar Pradesh since Yogi Adityanath took office in Lucknow. Hardnews studied hundreds of FIRs of these dodgy encounters and found the same story of bad guys carrying the same guns getting killed again and again

A month after violence erupted between Dalits and Thakurs in Shabbirpur village, tension still simmers below the surface. As the government transfers senior police officers and moves to contain the damage, will the Dalits be appeased ahead of the crucial municipal elections?Shalini Sharma Saharanpur